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Preparing for battle

 When do you prepare for war 💂🏾‍♂️🤔? When the enemy is at gates or in a time of peace 🤔? Well, I read a story about the Libyan government trying to prepare for war when the civil war started in 2011. 

The government was trying to buy around 120 armored fighting vehicles for around 28 million dollars. The person who was responsible to buy it, soon betrayed the government and join the rebel movement 😔. The Libyan government lost the civil war 💂🏾‍♂️

The lesson here is one shouldn't prepare for war when the enemy is at the gates. I'm not saying they lost the war just because they didn't get those armored vehicles, there were many other factors such as NATO's military intervention on behalf of the rebels, but the government was not prepared for the war.

And so it is with many of us spiritually. We live as if this world🌍 is a peaceful place and not a battlefield 💂🏾‍♂️, so when temptations and difficulties suddenly come upon us, we are  overcomed, defeated by the enemy 😈

Preparation for war 💂🏾‍♂️ is made during times of peace, not when the enemy is at the gates. You prepare for the battles of the day in the peaceful time of morning prayers, morning devotion, morning communion with God 🙏🏾

Prayer is the armored fighting vehicles we need to drive in this world, to fight the daily battles of our lives, the battles against temptations, battles against sin, battles against the flesh, the world and the Devil 😈

Don't wait until a moment of crises to get right with God, but every morning spend time with Jesus in prayer and He will prepare you for the battles to come during the day 💂🏾‍♂️. To delay spiritual preparations is to be overcome in the battle of life 😔. Don't be a victim, prepare today 🙏🏾

Luke 21

34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man

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